NEWS
By Britney Barnes | October 20, 2012
When Alex Posa, 12, was asked if he wanted to meet the president, he didn't hesitate to say yes. The experience didn't disappoint. "I was pretty excited," Alex said. "I couldn't wipe the smile off my face for the next week. " The Ensign Intermediate School seventh-grade student played hooky with his mother, Carol Seguin, Oct. 8 to meet President Obama. After meeting the president, Alex wrote a report about the experience for his teachers to make up for the absence. "It was a chance of a lifetime to meet the president of the United States and the leader of the free world," Seguin said.
NEWS
By Tom Ragan, tom.ragan@latimes.com | January 4, 2011
COSTA MESA — A memorial for a Mission Viejo resident who was fatally stabbed in Costa Mesa on New Year's Day, has been set for Saturday afternoon. Robert Sickles' ashes will be buried in the cemetery at the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, family members said Tuesday. "It's senseless," his father, Jim Sickles, 49, said in a phone interview from his Mission Viejo home. "These guys don't go looking for fights. " He was referring to his son, Robert, 27, and Robert's brother, David Sickles, 21, whom Robert had been apparently trying to protect just moments before Robert was stabbed in the chest.
NEWS
From Latimes.com | November 15, 2010
The remains of an Army Air Forces captain who went missing in action during World War II have been returned to his family and will receive a burial with full military honors off the coast of Newport Beach, the Department of Defense said. George W. Grismore of Salt Lake City and five crew members departed Tanauan Airfield in the province of Leyte, Philippines, on March 12, 1945, for a resupply mission to guerrilla troops. Their C-47A Skytrain failed to return, and a search that extended 10 miles wide on each side of the intended route revealed no trace of the men or their aircraft.
FEATURES
By Jim Carnett | May 18, 2010
Saturday’s Armed Forces Day would have slipped by unnoticed had I not spied an item in this newspaper (“1,776 flags for awareness,” May 15). Celebrated the third Saturday in May, Armed Forces Day pays tribute to America’s men and women in uniform. Sadly, it’s overlooked in the clamor and emotion of Memorial Day and Veterans Day. President Harry S Truman proclaimed the first Armed Forces Day in 1950. At the time, I’d been in the Army for three months.
LOCAL
By Steve Smith | January 4, 2010
The Smith family will drive about 60 miles Saturday to visit the Amoroso family in Murrieta. Melo Amoroso has been my friend for 34 years and was the best man at my wedding. Over the years, Melo and I have maintained close contact, but the geography has made it difficult to get together as often as we’d like. A couple of weeks ago, Melo and his wife, Susan, sent us an invitation to a type of gathering I’d never heard of, though I was quite pleased to see it organized.
NEWS
May 28, 2008
Marilou “Lou” Schwarz Taylor – AKA “Best Mom” Born February 12, 1928, in Hollywood, California, to Walter and Helen Schwarz, Marilou “Lou” Schwarz Taylor, a long time resident of Corona del Mar passed away May 4, 2008, after a seven year bout with liver cancer. She is survived by her only child, Stacy Morgan Taylor of Laguna Niguel. During the 1950’s, Lou was a professional award winning ballroom dancer, dancing at the Coconut Grove and the Avalon Casino to the live music of Guy Lombardo, Benny Goodman, Freddy Martin and Merv Griffin.
NEWS
By Kelly Strodl | September 8, 2007
Roger McBride was sitting on a two-ton truck at a rest stop 50 miles south of Fresno when he realized he wanted to serve in the Air National Guard no matter what. At the time he was traveling with the 222nd Combat Communications Squadron based out of Costa Mesa to a training camp in Boise, Idaho. Half the convoy was lost along Route 99, and the squad’s captain blazed up and down the highway looking for errant squad members. “But we had so much fun; that was what made me decide to stay in the guard,” McBride said.
NEWS
By Byron De Arakal | August 16, 2007
A few Sundays ago, honor and reverence hung heavy in the air at Harbor Lawn-Mt. Olive Memorial Park. That morning, a collection of notable Costa Mesans, politicians and several crisply attired representatives of the nation's armed forces gathered to dedicate the Costa Mesa Veterans Memorial. The memorial is a reality because of the vision of Costa Mesan Bud Hohl, the support of the Costa Mesa Community Foundation led by the tireless Cindy Brenneman, and the selfless hours of investment by guys like the Costa Mesa Police Department's Victor Bakkila.
BUSINESS
By Dave Brooks | May 11, 2006
A Costa Mesa company has secured a $5.6-million contract with the Air Force to develop technologies that process information much as the human brain does. U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of Huntington Beach helped broker the deal with Irvine Sensors Corp., for what is known as cognitive sensory technology. "It's the kind of capability where you can get the same approximate speed and power of the human brain," Chief Financial Officer John Stuart said. "It's not a trivial exercise but one we've been working on a long time."
NEWS
By: Mark R. Madler | September 10, 2005
During his career with the Burbank Police Department, Edward Skvarna often thought that the then Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport would be a nice place to work. Now that he is chief of the Bob Hope Airport Police Department, he is finding out just how true that is. "If I'm not doing some public service, I don't know what I'd be doing," said Skvarna, who lives in the Santa Clarita Valley. "It's a natural place for me to be." Skvarna was named as the new chief of the 32-member department during a ceremony on Sept.